As the title says I want to block posts with specific words. I’m not an American and lately my whole feed is filled with trump/biden and I’m not slightly interested. Thanks in advance.

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
    21·
    8 months ago

    In the app I use (voyager) there is a settings category to allow filtering words, users, communities or even instances from your feed.

    I banished Elon, Musk, and Taylor. The word swift would have been good too but it’s not specific enough to her name.

    • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      oh cool. now I can block every trash news article that includes phrases like “blasts”, “slams”, “says”, “should”, “could”, “might”, and “need to”.

        • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Particularly in politics and news communities, it indicates a “here is what <vaguely credible source we asked> predicts will happen” article. They’re not all shit by default, but I’m generally not interested in speculation pieces. I only want to know what actions concretely happened, not what some guy anticipates may happen.

          • otp@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            8 months ago

            I could see it being used for quotes (or at least paraphrasings), so I can’t imagine it being all bad

    • dead@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      8 months ago

      When you make a post using the words you banish, does your own post banish after you post it?